Monday 9-23-24 Sheridan Campground and Doing Errands

 

Camping at Sheridan Campground

I crawled out of bed at 7:00 and got dressed. Then I made pancakes for breakfast. Afterward we got ready to leave. We had a fabulous week of hiking at Rod and Gun Campground now it's time to go. 

Once everything was secure we were ready to go. We were on the road by 8:30. Our next destination was 70 miles down the road. On the way we stopped and did some errands. We mainly drove two lane highway. The first three miles was down the dusty dirt road from the campground to the lodge and restaurant, where we turned right. 

We drove 24 miles to Lead, where we went grocery shopping at the local Lynn's Dakotamart. Lynn's Dakotamart was a very nice store with a lot of things. You just have to watch what you buy because some items were very high in price. Cheryl checked us out and she was very fast and friendly. After putting the groceries away we were back on the road. 

 

Lead South Dakota

 

We drove 5 miles to Deadwood, where we stopped at the RV park to take showers, get water and dump our tanks. The lady, who helped Larry was very friendly and helpful. It cost $5.00 a piece for showers and $5.00 for water but the dump was run by the city and was free. If you want to stay there you get electric and water for $55.00 a night. Your site was in a dirt parking lot and you were right next to other sites. The park is very well maintained and had a history museum. We didn't walk through it. After our showers Larry went to the front desk and asked the lady where to get propane. She said go Auto Value in Central City, which is in between Lead and Deadwood. The gentleman, who took care of us was very friendly. He was outside when we pulled up so Larry didn’t have to go chase him down. Now we’re set for another week or so. We drove back to Deadwood, three miles and parked the Minnie in a parking lot. We had lunch and I did the last week of my Blog. We didn’t post it because it was long and we didn’t want to sit around all day in a parking lot.

 

Deadwood welcome sign

 

Deadwood is an old gold mining town built during the gold rush in 1876 to 1879. Now it's a tourist town with shops, restaurants and souvenir shops. It has a lot of history and has hike/bike trails. 

We drove another 32 miles to a forest campground that was suppose to have a loop open. Larry drove down a curvy road to get to the campground and found out it was completely closed. Fortunately he had a backup, it was 11 miles away. He drove the road back to the highway and headed towards the next campground. We were delayed a bit because of construction. The construction was for 6 miles down a rough rough. They had torn out the old road and were working on making the road wider. It’s going to take awhile for them to get done. We got to the new campground by 3:30 and we were ready to call it a day.

The new campground was Sheridan Lake Campground. We were surprised to see a lady at the booth. She told Larry what sites were available and said the campground was closing next week. We drove around and checked out the available sites. We got a great pull thru site close to the bathroom, which is a vault toilet. The campground is very pretty with a lot of trees. The sites are big but there are no hookups. It’s a big campground and to get to another loop it was about a mile away. We set up the Minnie for the night and then relaxed. We had leftovers for dinner. After dinner I walked around the campground for an hour and a half to get some steps. As I was walking a met a lady walking her dog so we walked around together and talked. I ended up doing 11,000 steps.